past seasons.

2024–2025 Season

  • 🗓️ October 5th at 7:30 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    👑 Gabriela Gómez Estévez, Conductor

    🎶 John Haines-Eitzen, Cello

    📖 Digital Concert Program

    CHARLES IVES The Unanswered Question

    CAROLINE SHAW Entr’acte

    JOSEPH HAYDN Cello Concerto in C major

    [Intermission]

    BRIAN RAPHAEL NABORS Onward

    EDWARD ELGAR Enigma Variations

  • 🗓️ November 16th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Barnes Hall, Cornell University

    👑 Gabriela Gómez Estévez, Conductor

    🎶 Tristen Jarvis, Contrabass

    ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK Nocturne

    MISSY MAZZOLI Dark with Excessive Bright

    CARL REINECKE Twelve Tone Pictures

  • 🗓️ November 23rd at 7:30 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    👑 Gabriela Gómez Estévez, Conductor

    🎻 Ariana Kim, Violin

    JOHANNES BRAHMS Academic Festival Overture

    BÉLA BARTÓK Violin Concerto No. 1, BB 48a (Op. posth)

    MANUEL DE FALLA The Three-Cornered Hat Suites No. 1 & 2


  • 🗓️ January 14th at 8:00 p.m. ET

    📍 New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, Boston, MA

    👑 Gabriela Gómez Estévez, Conductor

    🎻 Ariana Kim, Violin

    JOHANNES BRAHMS Academic Festival Overture

    BÉLA BARTÓK Violin Concerto No. 1, BB 48a (Op. posth)

    MANUEL DE FALLA The Three-Cornered Hat Suites No. 1 & 2

  • 🗓️ March 2nd at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    👑 Gabriela Gómez Estévez, Conductor

    🎻 Dean Zhang, Violin

    RICHARD STRAUSS Introduction from Also sprach Zarathustra

    MISSY MAZZOLI Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres)

    MAX BRUCH Scottish Fantasy, Op. 46

    I. Introduction: Grave – Adagio cantabile

    II. Scherzo: Allegro

    CHERYL ENGELHARDT Ex Terra, Ad Astra (World premiere, CSO commission)

    GUSTAV HOLST Suite from The Planets

    I. Mars, the Bringer of War

    II. Venus, the Bringer of Peace

    IV. Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity

  • 🗓️ March 9th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    👑 Gabriela Gómez Estévez, Conductor

    🎶 Ethan Wolff, Trombone

    BÉLA BARTÓK Romanian Folk Dances

    LARS-ERIK LARSSON Trombone Concertino

    RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Concerto Grosso

  • 🗓️ April 26th at 7:30 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    👑 Gabriela Gómez Estévez, Conductor

    👑 Joe Lerangis, Conductor

    🎶 Rachel Schutz, Soprano

    🎶 Jean Bernard Cerin, Baritone

    JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH / GRANVILLE BANTOCK Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme

    CHRISTOPHER THEOFANIDIS Rainbow Body

    JOHANNES BRAHMS Schicksalslied

    ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK Te Deum

2023–2024 Season

  • 🗓️ September 23rd at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    👑 Gabriela Gómez Estévez, Conductor

    JESSIE MONTGOMERY Starburst

    GEORGE WALKER Lyric for Strings

    LEOS JANACEK Suite for Strings

    [Intermission]

    JOSE PABLO MONCAYO Huapango

    ANTONIN DVORAK Symphony No. 8 in G major

  • 🗓️ November 11th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Barnes Hall, Cornell University

    👑 Gabriela Gómez Estévez, Conductor

    W.A. MOZART Divertimento, K. 138

    REIKO FUTING Mo(nu)ment for C/Palimpsest

    PAULA MATHUSEN such is now the necessity

    EDVARD GRIEG Holberg Suite

  • 🗓️ December 2nd at 7 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    👑 Gabriela Gómez Estévez, Conductor

    CARLOS SIMON Go Down Moses from A Folklore Symphony

    AARON COPLAND Lincoln Portrait

    FLORENCE PRICE Symphony No. 3 in C minor

  • 🗓️ March 2nd at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    👑 Gabriela Gómez Estévez, Conductor

    🎹 Jonathan Indajang, Piano – 19th Annual Cornell Concerto Competition Winner

    WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART The Magic Flute, K. 620: Overture

    FELIX MENDELSSOHN Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor

    I. Molto allegro con fuoco

    II. Andante

    GABRIEL FAURÉ Pelléas et Mélisande, Op. 80

    ALEXANDER BORODIN Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances

  • 🗓️ March 10th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Barnes Hall, Cornell University

    👑 Gabriela Gómez Estévez, Conductor

    🎶 Juliana Papinsky and Amy Elizabeth Shuhan, Flute

    ARVO PÄRT Silouans Song

    ANTONIO VIVALDI Concerto for 2 Flutes in C major, RV 533

    OTTORINO RESPIGHI Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite No. 3

  • 🗓️ April 28th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Barnes Hall, Cornell University

    👑 Gabriela Gómez Estévez, Conductor

    🎻 Christina Bouey, Violin

    HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS Aria from Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5

    JOSÉ ELIZONDO Estampas Mexicanas

    CARLOS GARDEL Por una Cabeza

    ASTOR PIAZZOLLA The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires: Winter and Spring

  • 🗓️ May 3rd at 7 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    👑 Gabriela Gómez Estévez, Conductor

    🎹 Christopher Richardson, Piano

    LIBBY LARSEN Deep Summer Music

    EDVARD GRIEG Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16

    PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Op. 17

2022–2023 Season

  • 🗓️ October 2nd at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Barnes Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Kirsten Marshall, Conductor

    C.P.E. BACH Sinfonia No. 3 in C Major, Wq. 182

    PUCCINI Crisantemi

    RESPIGHI Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite No. 3

    BUNCH Supermaximum

  • 🗓️ October 14th at 7:30 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Guillaume Pirard, Conductor

    GARROP Penelope Waits

    RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade, Op. 35

  • 🗓️ November 20th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Barnes Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Kirsten Marshall, Conductor 

    MENDELSSOHN String Symphony No. 3 in E Minor

    PATERSON Suite for String Orchestra

    TCHAIKOVSKY Serenade for Strings in C Major, Op. 48

  • 🗓️ December 3rd at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Barnes Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Guillaume Pirard, Conductor 

    BOULANGER D'un matin de printemps

    SNIDER Something for the Dark

    BONDS Montgomery Variations

  • 🗓️ March 11th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Guillaume Pirard, Conductor

    🎹 Brian Wang, Piano – 18th Annual Cornell Concerto Competition Winner

    BEETHOVEN Coriolan Overture

    ADAMS The Chairman Dances

    CETILIA Aristolochia (World Premiere)

    SAINT-SAËNS Piano Concerto No. 2

  • 🗓️ March 19th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Kirsten Marshall, Conductor

    🤝 Ithaca High School

    NORDGREN Portraits of Country Fiddlers

    WIRÉN Serenade for Strings

    GRIEG Last Spring

    NIELSEN Suite for Strings

  • 🗓️ April 29th at 7:30 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Guillaume Pirard and Joe Lerangis, Conductors

    🤝 Cornell University Chorus and Glee Club

    SCHUBERT Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D. 759, "Unfinished"

    MOZART Requiem, K. 626

    PÄRT Da pacem Domine

  • 🗓️ May 1st at 7 p.m. ET

    📍 Barnes Hall, Cornell University

    🎻 Ariana Kim (violin), Danny Kim (viola), John Haines-Eitzen (cello), Soloists

    VIVALDI Concerto for Cello in D Minor, RV 405

    VIVALDI Concerto for Two Cellos in G Minor, RV 531

    MOZART Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola, K. 364

2021–2022 Season

  • 🗓️ October 3rd at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Michelle Di Russo, Conductor

    🎻 Rebecca Anderson, Violin

    ASSAD Suite for Lower Strings

    RICHTER Vivaldi: The Four Seasons Recomposed (Spring & Summer)

    [Intermission]

    MÁRQUEZ Danzón No. 2

    DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, "From the New World"

  • 🗓️ November 13th at 7 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Michelle Di Russo, Conductor

    🎹 Xak Bjerken, Piano

    SIMON AMEN!

    GERSHWIN Variations on "I Got Rhythm"

    STILL Symphony No. 1, "Afro-American Symphony"

  • 🗓️ November 14th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Michelle Di Russo, Conductor

    PÄRT Cantus in Memoriam of Benjamin Britten

    COLERIDGE     Four Novelletten Op. 53

    ELGAR     Serenade Op. 20 in E minor

  • 🗓️ March 5th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Michelle Di Russo, Conductor

    LOUILARPPRASERT Auen Auen (World Premiere)

    TCHAIKOVSKY Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture, TH 42, CW 39

    STRAVINSKY Firebird Suite (1919)

  • 🗓️ March 27th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Michelle Di Russo, Conductor

    DE MONDONVILLE Excerpts from Titon et l'Aurore, Pastorale heroique in a prologue & three acts

    ORLANDINI Excerpts from Il Giocatore

    DAUVERGNE

    «Les TROQUEURS»

    Intermède [Opéra bouffon] en un acte et un ballet

    Libretto: Jean-Joseph Vadé

    Paris, 1753

  • 🗓️ April 24th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Michelle Di Russo, Conductor

    🎻 Nanor Seraydarian, Violin – 17th Annual Cornell Concerto Competition Winner

    SABZGHABEI World Premiere

    CHAUSSON Poème, Op. 25

    TCHAIKOVSKY     Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64

  • 🗓️ May 1st at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Michelle Di Russo, Conductor

    🪗 JP Jofre, Bandoneon

    LAROSA And Death Shall Have No Dominion (World Premiere)

    JOFRE Tangodromo

2020–2021 Season

  • 🗓️ October 4th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    VON BINGEN De Innocentibus Rex Noster (arranged by Marianne Richert Pfau)

    CARRENO Serenade for String Orchestra

    [Intermission]

    SIMON AMEN!

    RACHMANINOFF Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27

  • 🗓️ November 15th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    LIGETI Ramifications for String Orchestra

    TICHELI Rest for String Orchestra

    KAPRÁLOVÁ Partita for Piano and Strings

  • 🗓️ November 21st at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    C. SCHUMANN Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 7

    STRAVINSKY     Rite of Spring

  • 🗓️ March 6th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    FARRENC Overture No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 23

    PRICE Symphony No. 4 in D minor

  • 🗓️ March 27th at 8 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    DE MONDONVILLE Excerpts from Titon et l'Aurore, Pastorale heroique in a prologue & three acts

    ORLANDINI Excerpts from Il Giocatore

    DAUVERGNE

    «Les TROQUEURS»

    Intermède [Opéra bouffon] en un acte et un ballet

    Libretto: Jean-Joseph Vadé

    Paris, 1753

  • 🗓️ April 25th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    USTVOLSKAYA​ Symphony No. 2, “True and Eternal Bliss!”

    SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47

  • 🗓️ May 2nd at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    PRICE Adoration for String Orchestra (arranged by Chris Kim)

    VIVALDI Chamber Concerto in D major, RV 93 (guitar and strings)

    SAINT-GEORGES Ouverture de L'amant anonyme (2 oboes, 2 horns, and strings)

    BERNSTEIN Halil, Nocturne for Solo Flute, String Orchestra and Percussion

  • 🗓️ May 9th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    PRICE Adoration for String Orchestra (arranged by Chris Kim)

    MAHLER Symphony No. 4 (first three movements; arranged by Erwin Stein)

    COPLAND Appalachian Spring Suite

2019–2020 Season

  • 🗓️ September 29th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Katherine Kilburn, Conductor

    SUK Serenade for Strings in E flat major, Op. 6

    [Intermission]

    KIM A Tramp in the Assembly Line

    RESPIGHI Pines of Rome, P 141

  • 🗓️ October 19th at 7:30 p.m. ET

    📍 Ford Hall, Ithaca College

    🧍 Cornelia Laemmli Orth, Conductor

    V. WILLIAMS Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

  • 🗓️ November 17th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Katherine Kilburn, Conductor

    COOLEY Argo

    BRAHMS     Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98

  • 🗓️ November 24th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Katherine Kilburn, Conductor

    MENDELSSOHN String Symphony No. 10 in B minor, MWV N 10

    DVORAK Two Waltzes Op. 54

    IVES The Unanswered Question

    SIBELIUS Rakastava (The Lover), Op. 14

  • 🗓️ February 29th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Katherine Kilburn, Conductor

    🎶 Joy Zhang, Flute – 16th Annual Cornell Concerto Competition Winner

    FRANK Apu: Tone Poem for Orchestra

    HÜE Fantasie for Flute and Orchestra

    SIBELIUS Symphony No. 6 in D minor, Op. 104

  • 🗓️ March 8th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Barnes Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Katherine Kilburn, Conductor

    🎻 Ariana Kim, Violin

    MOZART Serenade No. 6 for Orchestra in D major K. 239, Serenata notturna

    COLE Death of the Poet

    BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61

  • 🗓️ April 19th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Katherine Kilburn, Conductor

    LANG Statement to the Court

    DEBUSSY La mer

    POULENC Gloria, FP 177

  • 🗓️ April 26th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Barnes Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Katherine Kilburn, Conductor

    SHOSTAKOVICH Chamber Symphony in C minor, Op. 110a

2018–2019 Season

  • 🗓️ September 30th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Henry Hao-An Cheng, Conductor

    🎹 Byron Wei-Xin Zhou, Piano

    SHAW Entr'acte

    SHAW Music in Common Time (with Chamber Singers)

    RESPIGHI Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite No. 3

    [Intermission]

    XINGHAI Yellow River Piano Concerto

    ELGAR Nimrod and Finale from the Enigma Variations, Op. 36

  • 🗓️ October 21st at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Henry Hao-An Cheng, Conductor

    🎻 Jennifer Koh, Violin

    CLYNE Rest These Hands

  • 🗓️ November 18th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Octavio Más-Arocas, Conductor

    MAHLER Symphony No. 1 in D major ("Titan")

  • 🗓️ November 29th at 5:30 p.m. ET

    📍 Cayuga Heights Elementary School

    🧍 Madeline Schatz-Harris, Conductor

    🎶 Timna Mayer, Leader

    TCHAIKOVSKY Serenade for Strings in C major, Op. 48

    RICHTER Vivaldi: The Four Seasons Recomposed (Spring & Summer)

  • 🗓️ January 11th–20th

    📍 Taipei, Taiwan (Zhongshan Hall, Zhongzheng Auditorium)

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🤝 Taipei Symphony Orchestra

    🎻 Ting-Hsuan Hu, Violin

    MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64

    MAHLER Symphony No. 1 in D major ("Titan")

  • 🗓️ March 9th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Adrian Slywotzky, Conductor

    🎹 Aditya Deshpande, Piano – 15th Annual Cornell Concerto Competition Winner

    RAVEL/MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition

    LISZT Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, S.124

  • 🗓️ March 17th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Barnes Hall, Cornell University

    🎶 Timna Mayer, Leader

    BARTÓK Romanian Folk Dances, Sz. 56, BB. 68

    MOZART Eine kleine Nachtmusik K. 525, I. Allegro

    PIAZZOLLA Muerte del ángel & Libertango

  • 🗓️ April 26th at 7 p.m. ET

    📍 Barnes Hall, Cornell University

    🎶 Timna Mayer, Leader

    🎻 John Haines-Eitzen, Cello

    🎻 Anna McDougall, Violin – CCO Soloist

    C.P.E. BACH Cello Concerto in A major, H. 439

    THOMAS RACHMAN Overture

    SARASATE Carmen Fantasy, Op. 25 (first two movements)

    GRIEG 2 Melodies, Op. 53: No. 1, Norwegian (conducted by student Andy Sheng)

    HOLST St Paul's Suite in C major (Op. 29, No. 2), I. Jig: Vivace

  • 🗓️ April 28th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Adrian Slywotzky, Conductor

    STRAVINSKY The Firebird Suite (1919 version)

    BRAHMS Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90

    BILIR Katik (World Premiere)

2017–2018 Season

  • 🗓️ September 30th at 7 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    📯 Alex Shuhan, Horn

    SCHULLER Journey Into Jazz (with CU Jazz, Martha Pollack, Paul Merrill, and James Spinazzola)

    BACEWICZ Concerto for String Orchestra

    [Intermission]

    TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 (first movement)

    STEPHENSON Sounds Awakened, Concerto for French Horn

    ELLINGTON/TYZIK Black, Brown And Beige Suite

  • 🗓️ November 11th at 7 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🎹 Miri Yampolsky, Piano

    🎷 James Spinazzola, Tenor/Soprano Saxophone

    SHARP Farther from the Truth for Orchestra (World Premiere)

    SCHUMANN Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54

    TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 (second movement)

    ELLINGTON/HENDERSON Three Black Kings

  • 🗓️ November 19th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Barnes Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🎻 Victoria Miskolczy, Viola

    SUK Meditation on the Old Czech Chorale 'St. Wenceslas', op. 35a

    TELEMANN Viola Concerto in G major, TWV 51:G9

    BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 1

  • 🗓️ November 30th at 5:30 p.m. ET

    📍 Cayuga Heights Elementary School

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    BACEWICZ Concerto for String Orchestra

    SUK Meditation on the Old Czech Chorale 'St. Wenceslas', op. 35a

  • 🗓️ December 1st at 7 p.m. ET

    📍 Sage Chapel, Cornell University

    🧍 Stephen Spinelli, Conductor

    🤝 Cornell University Chorale

    VIVALDI Gloria

  • 🗓️ March 4th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Barnes Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🎶 Dennis Kim, Guest Artist/Leader

    GOLIJOV Last Round

    BARTÓK Divertimento for String Orchestra, Sz. 113, BB. 118

  • 🗓️ March 11th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🤝 CCO Youth Orchestra, IHS Chamber Orchestra

    🎹 Andy Sheng, Piano – 14th Annual Cornell Concerto Competition Winner

    BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58 (first movement)

    MARSALIS Blues Symphony (second and third movements)

    TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Op. 17 (fourth movement)

  • 🗓️ March 28th at 8 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🤝 Wynton Marsalis, A.D. White House Professor – Masterclass and Rehearsal

    MARSALIS Blues Symphony (movements 2–5, World Premiere of the Revised Version)

    Link to Cornell Cast of the Concert

  • 🗓️ April 22nd at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Barnes Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🎶 Lucy Fitz Gibbon, Voice

    COPLAND Appalachian Spring

    BARBER Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op. 24

  • 🗓️ April 29th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    TCHAIKOVSKY Marche Slave in B-flat minor, Op. 31

    TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 (complete)

  • 🗓️ May 5th at 7:30 p.m. ET

    📍 Ford Hall, Ithaca College

    🤝 Larry Rachleff – Ithaca International Conducting Masterclass

    TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 (Cornell Symphony Orchestra)

    BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92 (Ithaca College Symphony Orchestra)

2016–2017 Season

  • 🗓️ October 1st at 7 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🎹 Shin Hwang, Piano

    VIVALDI La follia, Op. 1 No. 12

    MOZART Piano Concerto No. 18 in B♭ Major, K. 456

    [Intermission]

    KUSTER Devil’s Thumb

    MAHLER Symphony No. 6: Movements 1, 2 (Andante), 3 (Scherzo)

    Link to Webcast

  • 🗓️ November 12th at 7 p.m. ET

    📍 Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🎹 Malcolm Bilson, Fortepiano

    KIM Lullaby of the Waves

    GRIEG Two Nordic Melodies, Op. 63

    MOZART Piano Concerto No. 14 in E♭ Major, K. 449

  • 🗓️ November 18th at 8:45 a.m. ET

    📍 Barnes Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🤝 Presentation for Conference of New York State Superintendents

    VIVALDI La Follia, Op. 1 No. 12

    Link to the Talk

    Link to the Rehearsal Demo

    Link to the Performance

  • 🗓️ November 19th at 7 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🎶 Jessica Rivera, Soprano

    🎶 Nilo Cruz, Poet

    FRANK La Centinela y La Paloma (The Keeper and the Dove)

    MAHLER Symphony No. 6: Movement 4 (Finale)

    Link to Webcast

  • 🗓️ December 2nd at 8 p.m. ET

    📍 Sage Chapel, Cornell University

    🧍 Stephen Spinelli, Conductor

    🤝 Cornell University Chorale

    VIVALDI La Follia, Op. 1 No. 12

    VIVALDI Beatus Vir, RV 598

  • 🗓️ March 5th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🎻 Irene Jeong, Cello – 13th Annual Cornell Concerto Competition Winner

    🎶 Richard Faria, Clarinet

    STRAUSS Fanfare for the Vienna Philharmonic

    KO Strange Sounds and Explosions Worldwide

    SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concerto No. 1: Movements 1, 2

    LAURIDSEN O Magnum Mysterium

    TOWER Clarinet Concerto

    SIBELIUS Finlandia, Op. 26

    Link to Webcast

  • 🗓️ March 11th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🎹 Roger Moseley, Fortepiano

    ELGAR Serenade for Strings, Op. 20
    Link to Elgar

    SHARP Hear Me
    Link to Sharp

    MOZART Piano Concerto No. 19 in F Major, K. 459
    Link to Mozart

  • 🗓️ March 31st–April 9th

    📍 Argentina

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Andres Tolcachir, Conductors

    🤝 La Orquesta Sinfónica del Neuquén

    MAHLER Symphony No. 6

    Learn About Our Tour

    Local Media Coverage

  • 🗓️ April 13th at 6 p.m. ET

    📍 Cayuga Heights Elementary School

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    ELGAR Serenade for Strings, Op. 20

    DVORAK Serenade for Strings in E Major, Op. 22

  • 🗓️ April 30th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Barnes Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🎹 Xak Bjerken, Piano

    DVORAK Serenade for Strings in E Minor, Op. 22

    MOZART Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor, K. 466

  • 🗓️ May 6th at 7 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🤝 Cornell University Chorus and Glee Club

    SIBELIUS Symphony No. 7, Op. 105

    BOULANGER Psalm 130: "Du fond de l'abîme" (From the Depths)

    Link to Webcast

2015–2016 Season

  • 🗓️ October 3rd at 8 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    GRIEG Two Elegiac Melodies, Op. 34

    SHOSTAKOVICH Chamber Symphony, Op. 110a

    [Intermission]

    BEETHOVEN Leonore Overture No. 3

    FROELICH Symphony No. 1 (New York Premiere)

  • 🗓️ November 14th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Barnes Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🎻 Ariana Kim, Violin

    🎻 Susan Waterbury, Violin

    GROSSMANN Mosoq

    ARENSKY Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky, Op. 35a

    CORELLI Concerto Grosso No. 4 in D major

    Link to Webcast

  • 🗓️ November 21st at 8 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    BARBER Second Essay for Orchestra

    PECK Metropolitan for Orchestra

    RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade

  • 🗓️ December 3rd at 5:30 p.m. ET

    📍 Cayuga Heights Elementary School

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🎻 Ariana Kim, Violin

    🎻 Susan Waterbury, Violin

    ARENSKY Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky, Op. 35a

    CORELLI Concerto Grosso No. 4 in D major

    SHOSTAKOVICH Chamber Symphony, Op. 110a

    Christmas Carols

  • 🗓️ January 14th at 1 p.m. ET

    📍 Libby Gardner Hall, Utah University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    ARENSKY Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky, Op. 35a

    CORELLI Concerto Grosso No. 4 in D major

    SHOSTAKOVICH Chamber Symphony, Op. 110a

    Link to Shostakovich

  • 🗓️ March 4th at 7 p.m. ET

    📍 Klarman Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Kisun Sung, Conductor

    BRITTEN Sinfonietta

    BRITTEN Simple Symphony

  • 🗓️ March 12th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Kisun Sung, Conductor

    🎹 Yujin Stacy Joo, Piano – 12th Annual Cornell Concerto Competition Winner

    BORODIN On the Steppes of Central Asia

    PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major, Op. 26, Mvt. 1

    STRAVINSKY Firebird Suite (1919)

    Link to Webcast

  • 🗓️ May 1st at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Kisun Sung, Conductor

    LUDWIG Fanfare for Sam

    TCHAIKOVSKY Romeo and Juliet

    SIBELIUS Symphony No. 2

    Link to Webcast

  • 🗓️ May 7th at 8 p.m. ET

    📍 Barnes Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Kisun Sung, Conductor

    🎹 Xak Bjerken, Piano

    BARTÓK Romanian Folk Dances, Sz. 68

    DVOŘÁK Piano Concerto in G major, Op. 33

    MOZART Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550

2014–2015 Season

  • 🗓️ October 4th at 4 p.m. ET

    📍 Barnes Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    C.P.E. BACH Klopstocks Morgengesang am Schöpfungsfeste, H. 779, Wq. 239

    C.P.E. BACH Sinfonia in B minor, H.661

  • 🗓️ October 5th at 7 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Andrés Tolcachir, Conductor

    DAL PORTO Song of Eternity (CODA Composition Contest Winner)

    MÁRQUEZ Danzón No. 2

    GINASTERA Danzas from Estancia

    BARTÓK Concerto for Two Pianos, Percussion, and Orchestra, Sz. 115

  • 🗓️ November 14th at 8 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🎶 Lucy Fitz Gibbon, Soprano

    STARK Soldier Asleep at the Tomb
    Link to Stark

    MAHLER Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor

  • 🗓️ November 16th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Barnes Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🎹 Miri Yampolsky, Piano

    🎺 Frank Campos, Trumpet

    STUCKY Colburn Variations

    BARBER     Adagio for Strings

    SHOSTAKOVICH     Concerto in C minor for Piano, Trumpet, and String Orchestra, Op. 35

  • 🗓️ January 9th–18th

    📍 Ireland

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🤝 Royal Irish Academy of Music and Ian Doyle

    MAHLER Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor

    Mahler 5 in Dublin (Part 1)

    Mahler 5 in Dublin (Part 2)

  • 🗓️ February 28th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🎻 Paul Huang, Violin – 11th Annual Cornell Concerto Competition Winner

    WAGNER Overture to Rienzi

    LALO     Symphonie Espagnole, 1st Movement

    BERNSTEIN     Symphonic Dances from West Side Story

  • 🗓️ March 14th at 8 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    SIBELIUS Romance in C for String Orchestra

    VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
    Link to Vaughan Williams

    RAVEL Introduction and Allegro

  • 🗓️ April 19th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Barnes Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🎻 John Haines Eitzen, Cello

    TCHAIKOVSKY Serenade for Strings in C Major, Op. 48

    LOIACONO     Sleep Furiously

  • 🗓️ April 25th at 7:30 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🤝 Cornell University Chorus and Glee Club

    STUCKY Concerto for Orchestra No. 2: III. Finale

    SIERRA Carnaval: III. Unicorns

  • 🗓️ May 2nd at 4 p.m. ET

    📍 Ford Hall, Ithaca College

    🤝 Larry Rachleff – Ithaca International Conducting Masterclass

    RESPIGHI Pines of Rome

2013–2014 Season

  • 🗓️ October 6th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🎷 James Spinazzola, Associate Conductor/Composer, Saxophone

    BERNSTEIN Candide Overture (JS)

    BERNSTEIN On the Waterfront Suite (CK)

    SPINAZZOLA Lost Treasures with Silent Film Directed by Gibson Frasier and Mark Shanahan (JS)

    WILLIAMS Raider’s March (JS)

  • 🗓️ October 19th at 8 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🤝 Solisti Ensemble (Combined String Players of CSO, CCO, and IHS)

    VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Five Variants of “Dives and Lazarus”

  • 🗓️ November 17th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🎷 James Spinazzola, Associate Conductor

    🎵 Niccolo D. Athens, Guest Composer/Conductor

    ATHENS Symphony in Two Parts [World Premiere] (NA)

    TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 4 (JS and CK)

  • 🗓️ March 7th at 8 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🎷 James Spinazzola, Associate Conductor

    🎵 Tania Leon, Guest Composer

    🎹 Ryan McCullough, Piano

    🎻 Ji Min Yang, Violin

    🎻 Daniel Cho, Cello

    LEON Batá (JS)

    LEON Kabiosile (JS)

    KORNGOLD Violin Concerto (CK)

    DVORAK Cello Concerto (CK)

    WAGNER Flying Dutchman Overture (CK)

  • 🗓️ April 28th–May 2nd

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🤝 Carl St. Clair – Ithaca International Conducting Masterclass

    PROKOFIEV Romeo and Juliet Suite

  • 🗓️ May 4th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🧍 Loren Loiacono, Assistant Conductor

    SAINT-SAËNS Samson and Delilah: Bacchanale

    PROKOFIEV     Selections from Romeo and Juliet Suite 1 and 2:

    Montagues and Capulets, Suite II, No. 1

    Juliet the Young Girl, Suite II, No. 2

    Masks, Suite I, No. 5

    Balcony Scene, Suite I, No. 6

    Tybalt's Death, Suite I, No. 7

    Romeo at Juliet’s Grave, Suite II, No. 7

2012–2013 Season

  • 🗓️ September 23rd at 3 p.m. ET

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🎻 Ariana Kim, Violin

    MENDELSSOHN Octet (first movement), arranged for string orchestra

    VIVALDI The Four Seasons: Spring

    PIAZZOLLA Primavera Porteña from The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires

  • 🗓️ October 4th at 8 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Niccolo D. Athens, Conductor

    🎹 Andrew Zhou, Piano

    HOVHANESS Symphony No. 2, Mysterious Mountain

    BRITTEN Piano Concerto, Op. 13

  • 🗓️ October 26th at 8 p.m. ET

    📍 Sage Chapel, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🤝 Cornell University Chorus and Glee Club

    🎵 Arsenia Soto, Soprano

    🎵 Toby Newman, Mezzo-soprano

    🎵 Nathaniel McEwen, Tenor

    🎵 Brian Ming Chu, Baritone

    HAYDN Harmoniemesse

  • 🗓️ November 15th at 8 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    YUAN Bi-Focal (World Premiere of Revised Version)

    SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5, Op. 47 in D minor

  • 🗓️ November 18th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Barnes Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🎻 Ariana Kim, Violin

    🎻 Rebecca Lomnicky, Fiddle

    MENDELSSOHN Octet (first movement), arranged for string orchestra

    LOMNICKY     Grandma Rebecca's Favorite

    VIVALDI     The Four Seasons: Spring

    PIAZZOLLA     Primavera Porteña from The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires

  • 🗓️ March 2nd at 8 p.m. ET

    📍 Barnes Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🎵 Judith Kellock, Soprano

    ELGAR Serenade for Strings

    BRITTEN Les Illuminations, Op. 18

  • 🗓️ March 7th at 8 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🎹 Vikram Potdar, Piano – 9th Annual Cornell Concerto Competition Winner

    CACIOPPO Music for Orchestra (World Premiere)

    BARBER Piano Concerto (first movement)

    ELGAR "Enigma" Variations, Op. 36

  • 🗓️ April 14th at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Barnes Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🎻 Steven Doane, Cello

    LUTOSLAWSKI Grave for Cello and Strings

  • 🗓️ April 21st at 3 p.m. ET

    📍 Bailey Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🎻 Ariana Kim, Violin

    🎻 Inbal Segev, Cello

    🎹 Miri Yampolsky, Piano

    LUTOSLAWSKI Mala Suita

    BEETHOVEN Triple Concerto

    BARBER Symphony No. 1, Op. 9

  • 🗓️ April 27th at 4 p.m. ET

    📍 Ford Hall, Ithaca College

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    BEETHOVEN Triple Concerto

    LUTOSLAWSKI Concerto for Orchestra

  • 🗓️ April 27th at 8 p.m. ET

    📍 Barnes Hall, Cornell University

    🧍 Chris Younghoon Kim, Conductor

    🎷 Prism Saxophone Quartet, Guest Artists

    MOZART Symphony No. 29 in A Major

    STUCKY Music for Saxophones and Strings